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Origins & Exploration

interdisciplinary series – 2015-current (scroll to view —>)

In sentient and paradoxical gestures of performance, I empathize with the people in history (or in the future) who want to explore but due to lack of privilege or encouragement, remain gravity-bound. Through videos, installations, and photographs of consumer objects (ex. chicken eggs, make-up, bath water, and party supplies)…I queer the exclusive nature of science didactics. The legibility and believability of my body as astronaut from the perspective of the viewer, is meant to call into question who is syndicated as Space traveler and the potentiality of who should be.

installation from "Between the Real and Utopia" SITE Galleries Chicago, 2017

two from a series "Planetary References", vinyl on black canvas 2017. One or both of these men should have been the earliest Black American Astronauts, but due to tragic circumstances and racism/tokenism of white administration they were not.